#Vintage Sci-Fi

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

EPIC SCI-FI FIRST EDITIONS WORTH MORE THAN YOUR LIFE -- BOOK DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

TITLE: "Dune"

AUTHOR: Herbert, Frank

BINDING: Hardcover

EDITION: First Edition

PAGES: 412

VOLUMES: 1

LANGUAGE: English

PUBLISHER: Chilton Book Company, Radnor

DATE: 1965

BOOK OVERVIEW: "The first in the epic science fiction series of the same name, "Dune" is set on the desert planet Arrakis, host to "the Spice" - the most important resource in the universe, needed for interplanetary travel and coveted for its effects on longevity and granting incredible psychic powers among humans. Amidst an intergalactic power struggle, would-be heir to the planet's stewardship Paul Atreides is cast out into the desert to die following a coup. Joining a group of zealots called the Fremen, Paul soon becomes considered their messiah - Mahdi - and recognizes in them a formidable fighting force with whom he can retake control of Arrakis. "Dune" won both the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel.

FIRST EDITION IDENTIFICATION:

""Dune" is one of the high points for science fiction collectors and was first published in 1965 by Chilton Book Company in Philadelphia (an interesting departure for the publisher, who to that date had only published automotive repair manuals). The true first will read "First Edition" on the copyright page, with no subsequent printings, and will be in blue cloth boards. The jacket is a pictorial dark red and blue desert scene, and the rear panel has a map. The price on the jacket flap should be $5.95 and the rear flap should have the Chilton address across four lines."

-- BIBLIO, "The largest independent book marketplace in the world, with over 100 million books"

Sources: https://sarehlovasen.wordpress.com/2021/10/19/rating-all-of-the-dune-book-covers-i-can-find/ & eBay.

[wewillbewormandwife]

[shelandsorcery]

only a couple pages left in my spontaneous sci-fi sketchbook! and then i will see if there's anything to be done with these! any suggestions?

[rjalker]

The car drew up and stopped. From it descended two men. The first was a small, wizened figure with heavy glasses. What hair age had left to him was as white as snow. The second figure, which towered over the first, was one to merit attention anywhere. Dr. Bird was as light on his feet and as quick and graceful as a cat, but there was nothing feline about his appearance. He stood well over six feet in his stockings and tipped the beam close to the two hundred mark. Not one ounce of fat was on his huge frame. So fine was he drawn that unless one looked closely he would never suspect the weight of bone and muscle that his unobtrusive tweed suit covered. Piercing black eyes looked out from under shaggy brows. His face was lean and browned, and it took a second glance to realize the tremendous height and breadth of his forehead. A craggy jutting chin spoke of stubbornness and the relentless following up of a line of action determined on. His head was topped with an unruly shock of black hair which he tossed back with a hand that commanded instant attention. His hands were the most noteworthy thing about the famous Bureau scientist. Long slender hands, they were, with slim tapering fingers—the hands of an artist and a dreamer. The acid stains that marred them could not hide their slim beauty, yet Carnes knew that those hands had muscles like steel wire and that the doctor boasted a grip that could crush the hand of a professional wrestler. He had seen him tear a deck of playing cards in half and, after doubling, again in half, with as little effort as the ordinary man would use in tearing a bare dozen of the cards.

I'm sorry he can do what now

Also please note all the phrenology. He's the eugenicst ideal of both brains and brawn.

As I mentioned in another post, in the 1930s and 20s, most scientists in sci-fi stories were physically strong as well as intelligent, in very stark contrast to most fictional scientists today, who are usually portrayed as physically weak And usually cowardly.

Which I have a theory is backlash against all the really out and proud eugenicist crap from the 1930s like this after the Holocaust made that not the best thing to celebrate in public.

But it's just a theory I don't know, I guess I'll find out as I keep reading this magazine until I get to the parts that aren't public domain yet. I suspect there will be a very abrupt shift away from this, but maybe not.

astounding stories of super-science May 1931

[doomed-jester]

"I don't like old sci-fi shows, the special effects look too cheesy" you are incapable of joy. Go to the dungeon.

[koldakovo]

Through the Vibrations, 1931, Paul by Paul Malon

[mrorel]

If I remember correctly, they killed by injecting them with alcohol from their fingers.

Invasion of the Saucer Men in advertising 

[spirk-trek]

Contact Fanzine | Pat Stall, 1977

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"HELL, I'VE HAD BAD DREAMS EVER SINCE I LOOKED AT THOSE THREE RED EYES."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on pulp cover art to "Who Goes There?," the 1938 sci-fi novella written by John W. Campbell, Jr., and which would later be immortalized on film as John Carpenters "The Thing" in 1982. Artist unknown/undisclosed.

"...They haven't seen those three red eyes and the blue hair like crawling worms. Crawling -- damn, it's crawling there in the ice right now! "Nothing Earth ever spawned had the unutterable sublimation of devastating wrath that thing let loose in its face when it looked around this frozen desolation twenty million years ago. Mad? It was mad clear through -- searing, blistering mad!" Hell, I've had bad dreams ever since I looked at those three red eyes. Nightmares. Dreaming the thing thawed out and came to life -- that it wasn't dead, or even wholly unconscious all those 20 million years, but just slowed, waiting -- waiting. You'll dream, too, while that damned Thing that Earth wouldn't own is dripping, dripping in the Cosmos House tonight."

-- "Who Goes There?" (1938), Chapter 2, written by John W. Campbell (1910-1971)

Source: https://pechorinsjournal.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/who-goes-there-by-john-w-campbell-jr.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea lunchbox (1967)

[adamthealien]

Big bad buggy bouncing bomb-ass booty!

Alien Landscapes - Rendezvous With Rama 2 (1979) by Jim Burns from his art anthology ‘Lightship’ (1985)

[haematinon]

Created for my upcoming book Ergo Cosmos! A free chapter is available; if you are curious, just let me know.

"The swordsmanship schools of Bas and the other Mercurian capitals of the Twilight Belt have never produced a finer fighter than Felicissima, daughter of the Grandmaster Felice. And there are no better schools in the Solar System."

[horrorme]

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

[smalltownspacebug]

[thegroovyarchives]

1960's-1980's Star Trek TV Guide advertisements

1. December 2nd-8th, 1967, New England 2. September 26th-October 2nd, 1970, Central VA/North Carolina 3. September 20th-26th, 1969, Northern California 4. August 21st-27th, 1982, Vermont 5. April 1st-7th, 1972, Ohio (via: archive.org/Pinterest)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Oh, snap!

Vincent Price and Patricia Cutts -

The Tingler (1959)